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- Title
Select Document: John Hampden Jackson, 'Finland and Ireland: assorted comparisons' (1937).
- Authors
NEWBY, ANDREW G.; MC MAHON, RICHARD
- Abstract
This select document is an annotated translation of John Hampden Jackson's 1937 Finnish-language text 'Finland and Ireland: assorted comparisons', an article previously unavailable in English. It represents an intriguing and extended instance of the generalised comparisons that were made between Irish and Finnish history by observers from the nineteenth century onwards. Therefore, as an example of a mid-twentieth-century primer of the two countries' 'parallel histories', Hampden Jackson's article is an excellent resource. Moreover, although Hampden Jackson had carved out a niche by the 1930s as an expert on Finland, his reflections on Ireland expose a rather patchy and superficial knowledge, and arguably a degree of condescension. Some of the value of translating this article is that it exposes attitudes of the (broadly-defined) British Left towards Ireland in the 1930s, and particularly the way these were presented, in comparisons with other countries, to an overseas audience.
- Subjects
JACKSON, John Hampden; 20TH century Irish history; FINNISH history; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Irish Historical Studies, 2017, Vol 41, Issue 160, p256
- ISSN
0021-1214
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/ihs.2017.35